Tiananmen Mortar Plot
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| Tiananmen Mortar Plot | |
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 In 1951, several foreigners (first row) were convicted of attempting to assassinate Mao Zedong through the Tiananmen Mortar Plot. | |
| Location | Tiananmen |
| Date | 1 October 1950 (UTC +8:00 (China Standard Time)) |
| Target | chairman Mao Zedong |
Attack type | alleged assassination attempt |
| Weapons | Mortar shell |
| Deaths | 0 |
| Injured | 0 |
| Perpetrators | Antonio Riva, Ruichi Yamaguchi, Liu Yi, Tarcisio Martina, Henri Vetch, Quirino Victor Lucy, Walter Genther, Ma Xinqing[1] |
The Tiananmen Mortar Plot (Chinese: 炮击天安门案) was an alleged plot to assassinate chairman Mao Zedong in Tiananmen on 1 October 1950, National Day in China. The plot involved firing a mortar shell at Tiananmen during the parade.[2]
Eight men were accused and quickly convicted of the assassination. Antonio Riva, an Italian trader, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a Japanese bookseller, were executed on 17 August 1951.[3] The Italian bishop Tarcisio Martina was sentenced to life imprisonment and four foreign-born China hands and one Chinese businessman were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to ten years.[4][5][6]
Colonel David D. Barrett was falsely implicated as the leader of the conspiracy by Radio Peking, which the United States government described as "a bare-faced lie".[4][7]
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